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...able to take the objects out of the bags if necessary, to see them better, but still preserve the concept of all of the objects fitting within a certain space.” Bare lightbulbs on the ceiling illuminate the sections of the display, which are partitioned into square grids with masking tape, each grid marking the space that a particular bag occupies. The asymmetrical geometric arrangement of the bags and objects lends a peculiar charm to the display, and the sparseness of the room brings out with astonishing vividness the hues and shapes of the objects?...
...Students do not want to be one square on a huge grid,” Chetkovich said...
...industry has chosen this path not out of constraint but out of greed. Digital distribution dramatically reduces the costs of business for intellectual property companies, because it eliminates the need for companies to move atoms in the physical world in favor of pushing digital bits across the world information grid, in the words of MIT futurist Nicholas Negroponte in his book Being Digital. It’s common knowledge that out of a $16.99 CD price, artists get about a dollar, record labels get $5 to $10 and the rest goes to the retailer. These prices reflect the costs...
...mass effect." The planes that flew into the World Trade Center were just such weapons. They were "conventional," in a sense, but designed to cause great loss of life and spread chaos and despair. The hijackers didn't need sophisticated technology. Nor may their successors. The East Coast power grid, for example, has less than half a dozen key switching points. Six truck bombs, packed with nothing more sophisticated than the fertilizer that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years ago, could disrupt the economy of half the nation...
...blocks, other cranes will be rebuilding. While the downtown area west of Broadway will remain off limits until after the cleanup is finished and the crime scene closed down, businesses east of Broadway should be functioning this week. "The infrastructure of New York is laid out along the same grid as the city streets," explains Sam Schwartz, head of an engineering consulting firm and former New York City traffic commissioner. "This means that there are alternative paths to almost any building. If some of the connecting water or sewer pipes are crushed in one direction, the building can still access...